The name of the largest bell in the tower, "la Wamba" (I: 94-95), which is ringing throughout the city as the story opens, bears the same name of the legendary Visigoth king whose untimely removal in 680 A.

Actually it was more like a Visigoth raid than a party crash, Maureen had been dating some guys who were naval academy cadets, and Bob and I sort of livened up the party, and in the process drove them off.

And (to judge from my phone, which has been ringing off the hook with calls from long-lost Visigoth friends) not the pasts of others who actually organized and took part in the takeover of University Hall and other events of that spring.

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